San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-06-29
EDITORIAL BREVITIEs

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Indiana and there are no prohibition
! journals there.
Boston is making an effort for simpli.
fication In spelling and AS an example
spells "schOOl" scoOl. Until the Huh
can get down to plain skull, crud, evil
she will not better matters much.
YESTERDAYS dispatches coming SO
hard upon the heels OF previous fire
calamities, lead one to wonder If the
time has already come to burn up the
old planet? We believe it is to be
burned up according to the books.
CARTHAGE has smoking ghost. IL is
not decided whether II yet survives the
habits of its flesh, or whether this smOk-
ing Is an indication of the quality of its
new home, over there.
The Texarkana Times has found a soft
place for Col. HerndOn, as a moral mis-
sionary to Salt Lake City. He is to be
sent when Cranfill and Carroll divide the
offices of governor and secretary of state
between them.
The Parker County News correCts the
Fort Worth Mail on 1.-THE mutilated ear"
business, at the West Point academy.
The Parker News is qualified by nature
and education for making this correc-
ton.
THE peaceable and quiet followers of
prohibition occasionally rise to remark
"A good shotgun loaded with buck
shot is first rate antidOte for rotten
egg throwing" Perhaps, but unfortun-
ately there is no sntidOte for the added
brains that oversee the shotgun.
GEORGE and McGlynn; st. John and
Carol; Cleveland and Grady-these ap-
pear to be the several candidates fore
Swallowed for presidential nominations
in ISIS and fOreOrdained TO defeat at re-
publican hands.
TBOsE settlers on the Maxwell land
grants are bound to fight for their affairs
and their fires, and they are fighting
men, every last man Of them. The evir-
tiOn of these men is grOsser outrage on
right than any Irish eviction yet Or
dered.
The road along which some of the
blatant orators and sgtatOrs of this
present are attempting to walk into
office is altogether too narrow for the
spread of their toes Their understand
ings are immense, but their judgments
are not in proportion thereto.
IT was not necessary for the Inter-Re-
publiCs to abbreviate the truth in order
to get of its little joke about San AntO-
MOS tax list, and the publication there
OF in the LIGHT The city has new city
directory this year, all reports to the
contrary. The eyes and ears of the In
ter Republics are tilled with sand.
The Cotulla Ledger notes the collapse
OF the Houston refrigerator scheme and
calls on San Antonio to make another
pull for the ptrsimmOn. The advice is
l. i
in ii for all southern Texas. San AntO-
MO is standing in her own light in not
taking more interest in this matter. and
in her union stock yards, proposed paper
mills, etc.
The CastrOville Anvil rises to explain
hastily, that when it prOphesied another
train robbery In a late issue it hardly eX-
peOted the so soon accomplishment Gifts
prediction, and does not wish sus-
piciOus public to infer that it has deal
Ings with the gang"
HORATIO SEYMOUR, one Of the few good
democrats that this nation remembers
gratefully, in vetOing prohibition
measure in New York some years ago
remarked: "AlI experience shows that
temperance, like other virtues, Is not
produced by lawmakers, but by the in
tluence Of education, morality and re-
llgiOn." In that statement truth wears
Its beaver up, HOratiO.
SAN ANTONIO will very largely cele-
brate the immortal fourth outside of the
historic precincts. BOefne and Corpus
Christi are both bidding strongly for
the sheckles OF our citizens, and with
every prospect of success. The Alamo
city will reserve her 18th OF July thunder
for the immortal 4th of August, which
will be hereafter celebrated rs independ-
ence day, unless all signs fail and the
prOhibs carry the state. From this evil
"gOOI Lord, deliver us"
The propheoied defeat has not taken
the heart out Of the anti-prOhibiti OnIsts
yet. The Houston Age has $4,000 be-
longing to Alderman Stephen O'Flynn
which says the amendment will be de-
feated. O'FIynn could very profitably
employ some of that $4,000 in greasing
the journals of this anti-prOhibitiOn car.
Oil seems scarce.
The Fort Worth Gazette rising from
the terra-inCOgnita OF "Hells Half
Acre." remarks: There are Craig Toll
liVtr's in Texas in everything but cOur-
age. Instead of shooting they throw
eggs" The utteranCe OF this terrible re-
Election must have disturbed the euuil-
ibrium Of the man on the fence. 1t is
the silliest hapdOOdle yet uttered
during this campaign.
WHEN Herbert Bsmark had to take a
back seat on that English coach, his
royal highness, Buffalo Bill, occupying
the post OF honor, his mustache curled
with sstOnishment when he penetrated
the identity of him who was preferred to
the son OF Germsny's man of iron and
blood.
The Eagle Pass Times is very out
spoken and not unduly severe in its re-
marks snent the killing of II ildebrand by
Ihumm. The Times says that Ihumm
cannot be convicted by a Medina county
jury, but under operation of the law that
eXaOts q life for a life, predicts that
Thumm will die a death of violence.
According to the Times the sheriff has
terrOriZed the county, which
is literally under Thumm's rule.
This amendment question SINNERS it.
silf down to fair and square political
one. The democrat who goes with his
party goes anti-pTOhibitiOn. II he votes
prohibition next August he is bound to
vote for the prohibition candidates who
will come on to the platform next cleo
ton to make up Legislature favorable
to prohibition. Is Is pro. or anti-dem-
Ocracy as well as pro. and anti-prOhibi-
ton.
The gamblers, of a certain sort, are
having hard time OF it in some Of the
big cities. Until the law against gRmb-
ling is enforced in the case of wheat and
pork and coffee and stock gamblers, its
against Card-plsyers will be
regarded as mere DeTEpCUtiOD. nv all